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Art helping Kentucky women overcome addictions
Art helping Kentucky women overcome addictions By Phil Pendleton Published: Jul. 20, 2023 at 3:38 PM EDT PULASKI COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) – Art is being used in Southern Kentucky to help people overcome their addictions. The Sky Hope Recovery Center in Somerset recently received a new grant to further that endeavor. Deep[Read More…]
How to support employees with addictions
3 tactics to break the stigma of substance use conditions at work. By Suzette Glasner Substance use conditions can be detrimental to a person’s personal and professional life. Because of the stigma associated with substance use, struggling people aren’t given many opportunities to succeed—especially in the workplace. Employees’ fears of[Read More…]
HEAL to Host the Inaugural Addiction Recovery Celebration in Whitesburg on July 27th
WHO/WHAT: On July 27th, Help End Addiction for Life, (HEAL), in partnership with Mountain Comprehensive Health Corporation, Addiction Recovery Care, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, and over 40 other local, regional and state organizations, government entities and individuals will host a celebration for addiction recovery called, “Recovery Central”. The event will include a[Read More…]
ARC to begin transitioning clients into new facility Saturday
By Freddie Bourne | Messenger-Inquirer The new rehabilitation facility by Addiction Recovery Care (ARC) at the former OYO Townhouse hotel off West Second Street will begin a partial opening this weekend. The facility — named the Yellow Banks Recovery Center — will be ARC’s first residential treatment program in western[Read More…]
UW researcher says there’s a simple way to help people addicted to fentanyl
By Eilis O’Neill The death toll of the opioid crisis is rising faster in Washington state than anywhere else in the country. Addiction researchers say one thing that could help would be revisiting federal prescribing guidelines for buprenorphine, one of the main medications that can help people addicted to fentanyl or other[Read More…]
Remember opioid crisis? It’s gotten worse.
Narcan, generically known as naloxone and used to revive people who overdose on opioids, may not reverse an overdose on xylazine, an animal tranquilizer that has found its way to the streets. Matt Rourke, AP Photo Researchers say a series of interventions appear to help with overdose deaths, but warn[Read More…]
Monthly Buprenorphine Initiation Rates Remain Flat, Despite Policy Changes
Jul 19, 2023 Killian Meara Only 1 in 5 patients who initiated buprenorphine were retained in therapy for at least 180 days. Despite several policy changes that aimed to increase access to buprenorphine during the COVID-19 pandemic, monthly initiation rates of buprenorphine therapy have remained flat, according to research results.1[Read More…]
Drop in homicide reports, drug offenses among KSP updates in annual crime report
TOM LATEK | Kentucky Today Jul 19, 2023 FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – According to the Kentucky State Police (KSP) annual statewide crime report, overall serious crime rates dropped in 2022 from the prior year, and included fewer reports and arrests for homicides, drug offenses and robberies. The 2022 Crime in[Read More…]
COVID has been hiding another epidemic. We have to do more for our opioid patients.
Last year alone, nearly 110,000 people died from opiate use. This is a pill Americans cannot afford to continue to swallow. Dr. Thomas K. Lew | Opinion Contributor A 40-year-old man arrives in my hospital’s emergency department, blue from not breathing. It takes several rounds of medication and ventilators to[Read More…]